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Originally Posted by Willravel
Here's a crazy idea: people in the center and the right, people who may vote Republican, don't vote for the asshat representatives bowing to the extreme right. Don't vote for McCain when he runs right to beat a Tea Partier. If everyone running is an ignorant, theocratic xenophobe, run yourself as a centrist. I can think of a good dozen conservatives and libertarians on TFP I'd gladly vote for.
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You lose me here when you conflate far-right with "ignorant, theocratic xenophobes" and general asshattery.
It's unfortunately the case right now, in my view, that the groups promoting the worst and most obnoxious arguments are also promoting the best. They get my vote over the mediocre moderates.